[Robin W]

not really a bbpress question, but this should help – in effect you do each query/set with the connection details.

$user="xxx";
$password="yyy";
$database="zzz";
$host="aaa";
$con=mysqli_connect($host,$user,$password,$database);
$query="select user_email from wp_users where ID=".$id ; 
$result = mysqli_query($con,$query) or die("failed to get result1"); 

or

to update

$update= "UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content =\"".$post2."\" WHERE ID=".$id2 ;
mysqli_query($con,$update)  ;	
	

[stussi]

So it isn’t taking you to where you want it to also huh? I click on public discussion and it takes me to my post page, which I dont have any post since this is not a blog site. I have latest bbpress and wordpress.

[gmattwp]

Setting up a new forum, and need some input. (this isn’t an installation question, but it also didn’t fit into any other forum category, so it’s going here until someone lets me know otherwise.)

Looking to do a single-page forum, with managed/moderated (top level) topics, and open commenting there-after.

I’m a little unsure of where I need categories/forums/topics.

I will have a fixed number of categories (my term here, not bbp-catagories I think), that will be “Genres.” I don’t think bbpress-categories work here, as I can only have forums and not posts under them. Also I want the ability to “enable/disable” the active ones, and all of their content, depending on the month.

Under each category, I want primary “posts”/topics. Each one will be an article, something like either a review or a historical analysis. These will be written by specific authors, and moderated/approved by an admin. Normal users can’t post at this level (although maybe a submission form down the line, but still would have to be approved by a moderator.).

Then below that, the whole of registered users can comment/discuss. This would be the heart of the forum.

So it would be more of something like a newssite with comments, than a traditional open-ended forum. [Or like the old slash dot used to be, with primary articles (usually links to other content with a little commentary by the user that submitted it), and the bulk of the community activity was the discussion on each story.] But still would like it driven by bbpress, as that leaves room for future expansion/changes without having to restart.

So what’s the best way to leverage the categories/forums/topic here?

3 categories, each with 1 forum in it?
3 different forums (ignore the category)?
Try to use something else like tags?
Other?

As this is so simple, I had a question about how to do this on a single page [3 key elements: 1) menu for genre/category, 2) sidebar with recent items for the genre/category, and 3) content area populated from whatever was clicked on in sidebar. No page for individual post. No topics/directory/archive page. Single page is all that’s needed.] but think I need to get the categories/forums/topics sorted out first.

[bodybyloud]

I’m having the same issue. I’m using divi theme and bbpress shortcode for forum index. http://bodybyloud.com/Bodybyloud%20LoudTalk%20Forums/forum/introduction/ the post page comes up when you click on the Introduction forum I created.
wordpress- 4.4.2
bbppress – 2.5.8

[Robkk]

@swstarone this could be bbPress theme compatibility/WordPress theme related issue, an seo plugin could possibly cause this, title tag updates in WordPress could cause this too.

you can notice that there no username or nickname displaying on the page.

This could be a bbPress theme compatibility issue/theme issue. The title could be outputted if the page is_single(), but the user profile pages do not do this.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2545

This php code snippet could help with the issue though.

function rkk_add_title_to_user() {
    ?>
        <h1 class="entry-title"><?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'display_name' ); ?></h1>
    <?php
 }
 add_action( 'bbp_template_before_user_details', 'rkk_add_title_to_user' );

[Robkk]

Sorry for the late reply.

If it is pending the only thing in bbPress’ code that can add posts into pending is when a post contains a word in the comment moderation input box in Settings > Discussion and like I said before some plugins could add their own blacklist and hook into this, so make sure you have some spam plugins while you are testing this.

In the past there was a user that had to approve posts manually because a plugin at the root of the users server called “mojo marketplace” has a hidden blacklist inside of it that affected the posts.

You may also want to remove the “http” and “wwww” in your blacklist as this may be affecting it too.

[mojomo]

I’m using a child theme and I’m trying to make CSS adjustments to the forum list. I need to get rid of float + width because the numbers are not aligned with the titles (topic, voices, replies, last post). Whatever I try, bbpress ignores my changes. I tried adding the new CSS to style.css in my child theme as well as adding it to Jetpack’s custom CSS. I did even add the extra code to functions.php in my child theme so that bbpress style could be overwritten without using !important. Using !important doesn’t work either. I really don’t know what else to try. My theme is not perfect for bbpress, so I need to tweak a few things.

[blandow]

When someone uses bbPress login on my forum page, it redirects them to then login to the main WP login page, which then sends them back to the site’s homepage….how do I just let them login and remain on Forum page??

[Robkk]

Copy the default bbPress templates to a folder called bbpress in a child theme then you can edit the templates how you would like.

The files you are looking for is form-anonymous.php and form-reply.php.

Here is a guide that will explain this a little more.

https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/

[LTCOllie]

Cheers for the info Pascal. I’ve installed bbPress bbPress 2.6 but unfortunately the problem persists. There is no table prefix used in the forum i am converting from so have left this field blank when attempting to convert. Is this acceptable? Thanks for the help! Ollie

[oyegigi]

Hey y’all. I’m trying to import a bbpress forum from one site to another and am experiencing troubles getting my replies to show up. I’ve imported .xml files for my forum, topics, and replies (I had to separate out my replies into batches bc it was so large). In my admin section it shows that there are 442 published replies however none show up on the table. I’ve tried “Recalculate the position of each reply” in Repair Forums but get a blank screen every time.

I tried increasing my execution time in .htacess by adding php_value max_execution_time 900 and still nothing.

Any suggestions on how I can get this replies to show up? Thanks!

[Pascal Casier]

For uploading files, the 3 products I know of are ‘GD bbpress Attachments’, ‘Image Upload for BBPress’ and ‘bbPress Multi Image Uploader’. Have a look if it would fit your needs.

If you use BuddyPress as well, then there is also ‘BuddyPress Forum Editor’.

Pascal.

[oyegigi]

I was wondering if there has been any progress on this? I am having a similar problem (although nothing to do with phpbb import but rather a bbpress import) with the forum repair “recalculate the position of each reply” giving me a blank page.

[selenii]

How can I allow for all user to upload image in the topics?

[Pascal Casier]

Hi Ollie,

If you are starting from scratch with this, please consider going to bbPress 2.6. The import capabilities have improved a lot. You can download it from https://bbpress.org/download/
That version is very near to be launched to stable.

Pascal.

[LTCOllie]

Hi,

I’ve been attempting to import a vBulletin4.2.1 forum to bbPress 2.5.8 (running WordPress 4.4.2) and initially had database connection issues causing no users/posts/etc being found to covert. Having resolved the problems with these server import parameters I am now receiving an unknown character set error as below:

Starting Conversion

No users to convert

WordPress database error: [Unknown character set: ‘utf8mb4’]
SELECT convert(user.userid USING “utf8mb4”) AS userid,convert(user.password USING “utf8mb4”) AS password,convert(user.salt USING “utf8mb4”) AS salt,convert(user.username USING “utf8mb4”) AS username,convert(user.email USING “utf8mb4”) AS email,convert(user.homepage USING “utf8mb4”) AS homepage,convert(user.joindate USING “utf8mb4”) AS joindate,convert(user.aim USING “utf8mb4”) AS aim,convert(user.yahoo USING “utf8mb4”) AS yahoo,convert(user.icq USING “utf8mb4”) AS icq,convert(user.msn USING “utf8mb4”) AS msn,convert(user.skype USING “utf8mb4”) AS skype FROM user AS user LIMIT 0, 100

I’ve been trying the vBulletin importer rather than vBulletin3 having seen this advised elsewhere on this forum. Can anyone provide me with a solution/work around to prevent this issue?

Thanks for the help!

Ollie

[hotdogreen]

Hello,

I’m pretty new to the WordPress-World, but it makes a lot of fun.
I’ve installed bbPress and an additional Social Login Plugin.

I want to use the bbPress Login Widget but the Social Button appears like this:

http://forcenews.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/fb_error.jpg

Any Idea how I can change the alignment of the Button/Text?

(Sorry for my bad english)

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
That’s probably coming from a plugin or your theme. Something is interfering.
Try to switch to a default theme and switch off all plugins except bbPress. Then switch them on one after the after to find the one causing this.

Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
Not sure if 100% related, but if you know a little bit of coding, you can also check this : https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/#6-load%c2%a0the-style-sheet-after-bbpress
Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
Have you run the plugin mentioned above to clean ? (just install, activate, deactivate)

Talking SQL: if you had an older version of bbPress installed, the only traces you might still find would be in the wp_options table in the wp_user_roles option_name (replace wp_ with your own prefix of course), but it’s not advisable to modify that manually.

Let me know,
Pascal.

[swstarone]

I don’t know that from when this error came in my forum
but I noticed now.

example url http://www.swstarone-sat.com/forums/users/juliuspex/

you can notice that there no username or nickname displaying on the page.

check this screenshot.
http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/eb5c/inli2aq9h3i10nmzg.jpg

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress uses the users username by default, a user can change their own profile to use first/last name if they wish via the “Display name” on the users edit profile screen.

[Robin W]

Not one I’ve heard of before

So if you deactivate bbpress, do the child theme styles come back?

[uschesch]

After I activated bbPress in my WordPress site, my child theme styles were ignored – and now WordPress is using only the styles in my theme’s original style.css file. How can I ensure that my child theme styles are applied? I am using WordPress 4.4.2, and i installed bbPress 2.5.8.

Thank you.

[Lars Henriksen]

Hello,

I have found a code snippet somewhere, that does a fine job by including forum topics in the ordinary WP search. The only problem is that I have now added some private forums on the site where teachers can share assignments and problem statements for use in class.

So I would like to exclude private forum topics and replies from search results unless you are logged in as ‘contributor’ and up.

Does anybody know how to code that?

My code snippet is here:

/**
 * Include bbPress 'topic' custom post type in WordPress' search results */
 
function ntwb_bbp_topic_cpt_search( $topic_search ) {
	$topic_search['exclude_from_search'] = false;
	return $topic_search;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_register_topic_post_type', 'ntwb_bbp_topic_cpt_search' );

/**
 * Include bbPress 'forum' custom post type in WordPress' search results */

function ntwb_bbp_forum_cpt_search( $forum_search ) {
	$forum_search['exclude_from_search'] = false;
	return $forum_search;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_register_forum_post_type', 'ntwb_bbp_forum_cpt_search' );

/**
 * Include bbPress 'reply' custom post type in WordPress' search results  */

function ntwb_bbp_reply_cpt_search( $reply_search ) {
	$reply_search['exclude_from_search'] = false;
	return $reply_search;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_register_reply_post_type', 'ntwb_bbp_reply_cpt_search' );

Thanks.

Current WordPress and bbPress

Historielaerer.dk (a site for history teachers)